Evening Star Newspaper, September 18, 1924, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Kdition. ——t Lt crcitir o By WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY. .September 18, 1924 THEODORE W. NOYES The Evening Star Newspzper Company Suslacm Office, 11th 8. and Penusylvania Av New Tork Office: 110 Kast 42nd St. <’hicago Office: Tower Buil Eurvpeas : 16 Regent St., London, England. The Lveing Star, with the Sunday morning edition, is delivered by carriers within the ’s af 6 cents per month: daily nts per month: Sunday oniy. month. _ Orders may phone ‘Main 5000, Collection is made by car- 15 AL the €nd of each Rate-2v Mail—Payable in Advance, Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday. Daily only Sunday oniy. All Other States. Daily and Sun Daily only Sunday on] TU1Fr, §3.0051mo, Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclugively entitled te the use for republication of all uews dis- | Batelies credited 1o it or not otherwise cradit in this paper and also the local news I'shed herein. Al rights of b snecial dispatches herein are al<o r plication of ryed. A La Follette Idea. When Robert M, La Follette or- ganized his political machine in Wisconsin a number of years azo Dis followers made capital out of the phrase “the La Follette ide There were a good many of those ideas, advanced notions in politics and eco- nomics and sociology. Wisconsin adopted some of them, and later, when Fighting Bob” gained a position of prominence in Congress, he sought to have the Nation adopt them. Now le is organizing a new party, which be calls “Progressive” and which is vroclaiming several of th La Fol- | lette ideas.” “La Folletto idea” is to | campaign funds by charging| admission to clectioneering mectings, not a mere passing of the hat for “silver offering,” but an actual box of- fice barrier against those without the price. ociate Candidate Wheeler started out with a tariff of 30 cents at Pittsburgh, where 2,038 persons filled the hall where he spoke at that rate, which mathematically, if not actually, yielded $1,019 as a contri-| bution to the third party war chest. But Senator La Follette is not go- | ing to talk at a S0-cent rate. He holds himself at no such valuation. felose of the Madis | women and children would be killed in |a way in which military fellows were | not permitted to kill a man with a |gun in his hand a few years ago. | Maj. Gen. Squire discussed the “man- [ 1ess” airplane. It seem | have worked out, or are working out, plane that can be guided without a ider and which will dump explosives on non-combatants as frecly as on combatants. Gen. Patrick, chief of the Armg Air Service, is reported as say- ing: “We really gone so far as to now believe that transportation of an expeditionary force across the seas s an impossibility. If the Germans had known in the World War what we know few of our million then would have reached France. We seem to be on the eve of some monster development in air naviga- tion. But there is consolation in knowing that what can be used for offcnse can be used for defense. In view of the progress which war mak- ers are registering, it would seem that the peace keepers should make a few 1t does not seem hundred million people sleeping in their Dbeds or planting cabbages in their ficlds should be killed because a few men work them- s up into @ fever of what they call patriotism about a boundary line or some bales and boxes of goods called trade. The great mass of peo- ple are for peace, and in the end| the people will fave their way. —_———————— Drafting a Candidate. Norman E. Mack of Buffalo, na- tional Democratic committeeman for the State of New York, is one of thos Who has heen most persistently s ing to persu to take another nomi since the y Square Garden | has been dinging and donging at the governor on the score | of his duty to his party and the| State whenever the governor ha timated that he would not cons running nother term. He kept at him in and out of season. He | will not take *no | now, that a i | i e | or convention he in- the governor's aid?—and finally put the situation thus after ference at Albany with the executive: The governor tells me he has been governor lc that this is the time for clusive | that he thinks = cnough and 1 to retire. He speaks tonight at Madison Square Garden, his firs ance in per- | in the ampaign. The | scale of prices ranges from will noted that included, which suger be rated as a form of entertain-| ment, along with the “Follies,” Broad- | way revues and base lall games. It is estimated that the Senator swill | speak to a $12,000 house. The money | will go into the campaign fund. | This expedient of charging admis- sion would suggest that perhaps the | nation-wide dollar-a-head La Follette | fund is not coming along very well. | If the appeal for third-par | had been effective there would be 1 need now to interpose ticket-takers at the rallies and specchifyings of the candidates. | for be s that this is ‘This form of campaign contribution cannot possibly challenge the cism of Senator Borah, whos mittee is on guard against practices this year. When steps up and planks down for the privilege of h Wheeler or $2 for h La Follette—kickin nickels on the side for Uncle Sam as a he sureiy cannot be regarded as Ject to any coercion or seekin; undue advantage. The buyer of ad- mission tickets for one of these affairs may have ground for complaint after the show is ov He may fecl that | he did not get his money’s worth, but | that was a chance that he took w h«-ni he bought his ticket ! Tt would be interesting to know the reaction of William Jennings Bryan, whose fraternal proxy is now figuring | somewhat in the presidential cam-| paign. on the subject of charging ad- | mission to campaign speeches. e | is an experienced taker of fees for | public addresses, but he never put the | La Follette idea into practice during | his own campaigns. He might have | been @n even more wealthy man to- | day than he is if he had started scll- ing tickets earlier. —_—————— eriti- | i com- | i corrupt a n 50 ce Senator Senator ile firm in decision when occa- sion demands, President Coolidge dis- plays statesmanlike restraint in de- clining to referee personally an un- limited number of minor disput —_———— ¥rench sentiment may shy at the purchase of German reparation bonds; yet there should be some way to overcome the prejudice if the bar- gain is good enough. —_———— Nobody expected for a moment that the formality of retirement for Gen. Pershing would imply a retirement from popular attention. —_——— New Styles in War. Most persons privately prefer peace to war, even as war was fought in the old-fashioned way, with rifles, cannon, bayonets and sabers. When, in the recent war, the German sons of Mars strangled men with gas, dropped dynamite or TNT from mid- night skies on people in bed and in hospitals and blew up passenger ships at sea, drowning non-combatants by the thousands, most persons thought that the limit of atrocity had been reached. But men with a talent for war and promiscuous murder are not putting <he brakes on their genius. The devil's inventors are busy, and they promise that in the next war they will show a line of goods which Wil enke the lethal agencies of the | recemt war look like hoopskirts, bal- 1oon sleeves and braids of hair hang- ing down a woman's back. There has been g meeting of sci- entists at Philadelphia in honor of the centenary of the Franklin Institute. Some of the men who spoke—and they seemed to speak with knowledge and zuthority—told that among the new weapons that would be used in the next war were chemicals that would “paralyze an entire nation.” One un- derstands from this that the new-style He { tion nam | there the governor c-clected has pointed out that to run again and b two years more will no that a party need bove well th onven- im he will aceept, although he has not told me th If that is the situa crnor accepts in case of nomin regardless of his professed wish to be excused, then Mr. Mack will have his way. It would seem to be very simple situ all, on that Let the testing or keep on the convention at 8 and pame him and,t let nature Very simple indeed! | n the Sy cuse con- { vention 1 Smith will have something to say privately to those charge will perhaps inttu- N If he really hon- does not want to be dues not want or ¥ not be nvention can r he is the head suate and no| bossed by the party unl chloroformed. And there is ance of ap- plying anesthetics to so astute a poli an as Alfred It he nominated it will be se he wants to be and not because he is forced. —_————————— Eyes on Iowa. Candidate John W. Davis, reaching | Des Moines yesterday, took cognizance | of that feature of the presidential sit- | uation in the State characterized by a disposition on the part of the party managers to hold that the contest is between Coolidze and La Follette, s it 'disregardful of the fact that is a Democratic candidate in the field. “Where do you 'get that| line of talk?” he may be imagined saying. He had Wiy heard re- ports from the t of talk of like tenor—that he is running third in the race. So he took prompt steps to put | himself on the map should anybody | think he was to be whistled down the wind to third place. Ie got in touch with leading Democrats, including 100 county chairmen, and proceeded | to iustil a. little of the enthusiasm he ! had accumulated in up to that time and tell them to brace up and show that the Democrats are in the running and will have to be ac- counted for at the polls. He is justified in that policy. All reports to date agree that Towa will be a close State. It is quite within the range of possibilities that Iowa prove the crucial State in the | election. The three parties are in a desperate contest to hold it. It will be well worth while to keep eyes on developments in Iowa as the campaign progresse: ——— e Anybody who doubts that affairs have entered upon a new era has only to look up the record of Wash- ington’s ball cluh. ° t high know v is a take its course, Of cour | 1 action. W truly overnor again, m again, which e same thir on h party est or in b was eve his tour 1 The Holy Name Society. From all parts of the United States today come delegates representing the membership of a great religious or- ganization, created primarily “or the strict observance of the Third Com- mandment, the Holy Name Society. This body of Catholic men is one of the potent moral forces of this coun- try. Its membership comprises 1,500,- 000, who are pledged against profan- ity. They meet now here in Wash- ington in annual session with about 6,000 -representatives, who will hold sessions during the remainder of this week and on Sunday will head a great procession of Holy Name societies, comprising, it is estimated, over 100,- 000 marchers. Profanity s an evil of a degrading effect. It is obnoxious, apart from its significdnce as a reflection upon re- | e THE. EVENING ST lief. Often, however, profanity is a matter of thoughtless habit. It has become a part of speech without meaning. Yet whatever the thought, or lack of thought, behind profane that inventors | words they are debasing in their in- fiuence. = The Holy Name Soclety, however, | sceks more than the mere purging of speech of irreverent words and phrases; it secks a higher standard of life, a sounder system of morals. It is one of the beneficent, helpful, constructive movements of the peo- ple. Washington, which is the site of important institutions of the Catho- lic Church, is an appropriate scene of this gathering. The delegates to this conyention are welcomed to the Capi- tal, whose doors are always open to Americans of all degrees, all faiths, all wor Jail the Speeders! A young man in Detroit of high {social standing was sentenced to spend five duys in the house of cor- rection and to pay a fine of $100 for speeding his motor car. The penalty not excessive, considering the danger to which the public was ex- posed through his recklessness. It would be well, making for greater safety, if such penalties were inflicted r\‘jzul:u'l‘\n To send a speeder to jail is far more effective a correction than to administer a fine, Speeding causes most of the motor accidents. A car that is under con- trol will not strike a dangerous blow. A speed of 20 miles an hour in crowded streets is likely to bring about fatalities at any moment. going at that ate cannot be <ht to a stop within the limit of hove | car rou safety Those who regard themsclves while driving motor cars as above regula- tion, and especially above the rights of others who are using the streets, afoot or awheel, should be given heavy penalties whenever they are aught. And they should be caught |and punished before they cause acci-| cases should be cumulatively heavier Successive by penalti Whenever a fatality occurs which | uid | duc to speeding the driver be Leld for manslaughter and quick- {1y brought to trial and, if convicted | punished by a jail term. Only by uch drastic means can the habit of | scorching in the streets and on the | roads of the suburbs b Jail for the speede £ | prevent hospital treatment vietim, cured. likely for to the —_———— Airplanes are cheaper than - battl ships and, in proper numbers, more fectual, according to many expert Economy consists not only in redu ing cxpenses, but also in getting the most for the money ———— Hard work and eriticis been the lot of the House of Repre- sentatives. La Follette and Wheeler adding to its burdens. P S — Retirement of Gen. Pershing is bringing forward renewed apprehen- are in danger of being lost through red tape. —_—————— Berlin discusses ancient war re- onsibilities when it should be think- ing of future financial responsibili- t PV — SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. ‘Whiskers. When whiskers were in politics— And that was years ago— They had a different kind o' tricks From those which now we know. Our chiefs clean-shaved are well be- haved And very wise and bold; Yet now and then we seem to crave The statesmanship of old. A palr‘mrch 80 dignified Our confidence would win v signs of age which we descried On his respected chin. A face designed to awe mankind Should fertile be, though neat; Without the foliage we find The landscape incomplete. B Consistency. “What are you going to say in your next speech?” “Pretty much what I said in my previous speeches,” answered Senator | Sorghum. “After you have launched your campaign on certain lines, all that can reasonably be expected is for you to show that you haven’t changed your mind.” Jud Tunkins says bein’ the life of the party is always a hard job, and particularly so with a political can- didate. Will It Come to This? “Rings on Her Fingers and Bells on Her Toes!” When contests are managed with care, A prize to provide for the prettiest pose, Perhaps that's a-plenty to wear, Change of Attitude. “What do people do with a boot- legger in this community?” “Formerly,” answered Uncle Bill Bottletop, “they called the police. Now they try to,borrow money from him.” Morning, Noon and Night. My flivver has a kit of tools ‘Which go along with printed rules. But when she stops I walk alone To find the nearest telephone. Of clubs my golf bag is so full I do not know which one to pull. ‘When I have scrambled through the lot, I'm too perplexed to try a shot. And I am puzzled when I dine By knives and forks and spoons in line, In striving to selebt aright T almost lose my appetite. “My principles is agin fightin’,” said Uncle Eben, “an’ I's liable to git ligious faith. Use of the name of the wmr makers, would poisgn and asphyx- e & whole race of people and that ) Divinity in objurgation and revile. ment is Incompatible with sincere be- patl terrible riled and pugnacious wit any- body dat tries to make me violate my prineiples.” Y Al Greater speed is not essential. | think nothing of the possibilities of | ions that valuable time and energy | WASHINGTON, D. BY JAMES ARTICLE 1. Washington’s public schools will begin the new scholastic year next Monday again confronted with all of the undesirable conditions accumu- lated since the “beginning of the World War, magnified by the ever-in- creasing shortage of classfoom ac- commodations, which this year foom more serious than ever before. The minimum increase in the school enrollment during the new term is expected to reach 2,000. The summer has given, in the way of additional school facilities, only one new build- ing—the elght-room Bancroft School— at Eighteonth and Newton streets. The six-roow sddition to the Thom- son School, ut Twelfth ‘and L streets. | also Is ready for occupancy. But 14 rooms will not house 2,000 children. The seriousness of the situation is even groater emphasized by the fail- ure of Congress to provide funds in the current District appropriation bill (for the construction of additional schools. Schoolhouse construction will be at a standstill throughout the 1924-1925 scholastic year. * Kk kX Once perplexing, the problem of re- lleving ~congestion is mnot giving school authorities this year any grave concern. Their only remedy is to in- crease the number of -oversize and part-time classes, thereby sacrificing educational efficiency by giving the puplls about 70 per cent of a normal schooling. Portable buildings, those unsightly, flimsy, one-room frame structures, pres into use in the war-time mergency, when Washington's popu- lation rose to unprecedented heights. | will continue to be used, despite the persistent efforts of ~chool offi rid the echool property of the of the 78 portables will be occuj on the opening day of school, and others could be used advantageously if funds were available for their pur- | chase. Decidedly helpful as temporary ex- i pedients, the portables are not sat- isfactory in extremely warm weather or in cold, windy weather. Heated by coal stoves, these buildings are poorly ventilated and their very presence on_school property shows the need of additional permanent school facilities in the same region. * % r ¥ How many oversize classes will be organized this year officials will not be able o answer until the peak of the enrollment is reached the latter part of October. is hound to exceed more than ment of more sometimes mor, 45 and structio | instruct sult m and henc not only creases th had an euroll- than 40 puptls and individ: bl AS a re- of promotion must repeat a grade. This ards the pupil, but in- congestion in the school Part time is a term used In Wash- ington to refer to clusses receiving less than a full day of instruction One lass comes in the morning and | Bues home at 12 or 12:30, and another | comes at 1 and goes home at 4 or One room, therefore, is mmodate two classes. At 2 recelving 3= hours d of 5 hours of education. Such | children are spending only wbout 79 | per cent of the time in school which is impe pupils fail | All is quiet in Herrin—but for how long? Most of the editors who have discussed the most recent outbreak of viclence in Williamson County be- there only through dra the State of Thinois its “It seems fairly certain that the later outbreaks of the-warring factions are not related to the labor disturbances j that first drew attention to the village, explains the Springtield Union. “The ef- forts to enforce prohibition lu s di- rectly responsible for the second civil | war, and it appears, from wha | learned, that the pre connected with those difficulties. ever the facts may be, the Kansas City Journal thinks “it is clear that efforts de the law to enforce the law are against the lawe themselves, and in- vitably must result in the state of af- i fairs now existing.” Herrin has shown what can happen anywhere, “what bound to happen in man; the Houston Chronicle, trample down this pestil emotionalism and come en: ‘These repeated outbreaks are srmp- toms of a dangerous etate of public feeling ; the causes need to be remedied,” | declares the Philadelphia_Inquirer, but “the first thing the people of Herrin should learn is that lawlessness is no {remedy for lawlessness.” The governor, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat contends, “should create an investigating body for this particular and vital purpose, and that body ehouid detcrmine what is the matter with Willlamson County and make its findings known—upon this basis law and order should be restored at all costs.” tic action by nce of bigoted back to our * k% % The Chicago Tribune says: “We ought to be able to appoint a receiver for the county with power not only to maintain and enforce law, but with the ability to take up the task of edu- cating and elevating the public con- science and character; but we have no method of doing that. In lieu of it, when Willlamson County sinks in its depravity to a physical wilderness as it is now a moral wilderness, we may colonize a new civilization there. In the meantime the future of such a community remains dark and bloody."” “The creed of Herrin, born of prej- udice and disrespect for the consti- tuted authority that its residents have helped to create,” the Indian- apolis News holds, “is a challenge that cannot be ignored, because si- lence or inaction in the face of such a situation is of itself not far from criminal.” The Oklahoma City Okla homan is confident that “had the men whose blood lust gave Herrin a name for assassination been sent straight to the gallows, had the men who mas- sacred defenseless miners been hang- ed, had the laws of Iilinois been en- forced with reasonable promptness, Herrin would be today a peaceful vil- lage and every citizen’s life would be safe.” The Cleveland Plain Dealer also suggests that “a few hangings at Herrin—legally conducted—would be of inestimable benefit.” For what has occurred there, the New York Times suggests, “it will take time and will require resolute action by the county and State authorities to restore in misguided people the sense of civic duty and the feeling of obli- gatlon to awalit the process of law. * k k % “There is only way to cure Herrin,"” in the opinion of the New York Her- ald-Tribune, that is, “through secur- ing a liveller sense of their political respensibilities among the citizehs of Illinois and a more vigorous idea of the obligations of government among the politicians in Springfleld. It is one of those drawbacks with which the blessings of a federal government are tempered that there is nothing in the world which the regt of the country can do about it.” “The dis- Lgrace of Herrin, the Wichita Beacon lieve law and order can be introduced | C, DISTRICT’S SCHOOL PROBLEM Inadequate Facilities for Education of Youth a Re- ¢ proach to the National Capital. E. CHINN. they should spend there. There were more than 1,000 children In part-time classes last year and the number may be doubled this year, according to present indicutions. * k% k The overcrowding in the school sys- tem is due to three factors: First and foremost is the marked increase in the population of the city. The second factor is due to the large num- ber of pupils who are continuing through high school instead of leav- ing school either at 14 years of age term. During the war period the de- mand for any sort of help drew many puplls out of school. Under present conditions th are remaining in a very large measure. At the same time general recognition in the community of the value of a high school educa- tion and the wide variety of educa- tional opportunity offered in Wash- school population to these higher fields. Moreover, while a fow years ago it was customary in business to require that young people going into employment should have at least an elementary achool education, it is be- coming now increasingly common to require that they shall have been through high school. The third factor seriously affecting the accommodation situation is that of shift of population. Since the war there has been a steady trend of city population from all sections to the Northwest especially, and to some extent to the Northeast suburbs. The Northwest section remarkable rapidity. While the drift from other sections was not sufll ciently heavy to close out buildings crmit of much consolidation |of classes, in the aggregate it w sufficient xeriously to overburden the schools in the Northwest, which were | Some of the must | already crowded. serious building problems, therefore are those which concern the schools Mount Pleasant, Columbia Heights, | &irightwood, Petworth, Chevy Chase and Takoma Park. * % % x It is in these sections that oflicials are now centering their attention |Opening of the new Macfarland Junior High School, on lowa avenue, last situation but ¢ Bancroft School, in terially. The greatest hoge for relief in_ this section is in the Raymond School, now under construction near Sixteenth street and Spring road. This building, however, will not be ready for occupancy before the be- ginning of the second semester, on 0 at t Takoma Park and the Brown schools, the latter in Chevy transferring . portable to | these buildings. Re citizens of these two communi- for the introduction of the pla- toon system of education at these huildings have held their plans in abeyanc until the Board of Educ: tion takes final action on the propo- Regardless of the board's de- Chevy Chase and Takoma ark will be given additional tem- {porary school facilities. The other communities must t the und sirable makeshifts—oversize and part- time classes in increasing numbers. State of Illinois Held Responsible for Herrin |continues, “reflects itself upon a | State government whose spineless of. | ficers let the first Herrin murders oe jeur, and then go unpunished.” If 1lli- nois is really disposed to control her {turbulent coal country, according to | the Newark News, “she has proved, | since the massacre of miners at Her- irin in 1922, singularly inept in her | efforts to turn the disposition into ef- | tective action.” The Springfield Re- | publican also_thinks that “Iilinois as |a sovereign State and its people as citizens are perhaps chiefly to blame for not taking hold of the situation with determination to set it right.” “There is no room in this country for more than one Herrin,” the Balti- more Sun declares, “and if the people of llinois have any pride and self- respect left, this town of bloody feuds will be cleaned up by public indigna- tion under some form of legal sanc- tion that will save it from the sav- agery into which it has fallen.” For, in a ‘sense, the St. Paul Dispatch maintains “Herrin has seceded from the Union because it has rejected the idea of American democracy.” Chicago Boy Sentenced to Hang for Murder To the Fditor of The Star: In reading The Star ofSaturday, September 13, my attention was drawn to the following headline: “Poor Boy of 19 to Hang in Chicago. Although I do mnot know this boy, my sympathy has been aroused. In view of the fact that world-wide at- tention was focused on Chicago so recently in the case of two sons of wealth, Leopold and Loeb, who be- cause they were 19 years of age were spared the gallows, while another, a poor boy of the same age, without money behind him, must pay the supreme penalty. Furthermore, Leo- pold and Loeb pleaded guilty to the murder of Bobby Franks, which they said they committed “to get a thrilL” On the other hand, in the case 1 refer to, this youth, of 19, too, Her- nard Grant by name, sentenced to be hanged for shooting a policeman in 1923, was convicted on the slenderest of evidence. Five witnesses testitied that Grant was in bed at 8 o'clock on the morning of the shooting. Two street car transfers found in Grant's pocket was the determining item on which the jury is said to have de- clded the youth's fate. Grant denled that the incriminating transfers be- longed to him, and his attorney, Thomas E. Swanson, sald that an- other has admitted since the trial that the transfers belonged to him and not to Grant. Grant's lawyer said that the State offered him a 20-year term in the penitentiary if he would plead gullty, but’ he elected to stand trial before a jury because he was inno- cent. If the boy is innocent, as he says he is'then may 1 ask, why should he be asked to plead gullty? Grant says: “I am poor, therefore I am going to be hanged, although I did not commit the crime. 1 work- ed hard to mupport my crippled father and my mother. I lived in the stock yards district, where there are no fine homes, no automobiles and no colleges. I am simply the victim of fate. ¢ This 19-year-old youth will be exe- cuted on the morning of October 17 unless the Governor of Illinols orders commutation of hiy sentence next week, when the case will be pre- Sented to him as a last resort. I only wish that this letter wil serve«the purpose of arousing senti- ment in behalf of this poor boy, who, according to the paper, bore a good record up to the time of hI¥ arrest and who stoutly maintaine that or at the end of the elementary school | ington’s public schools, has held the | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1924, An almost completely starved Kit- ten, miserable creature on fts last legs, dragged itself aiong 10tn street between C and Little B streets. Its piteous cry was the only lusty thing it had left. . How it had gotten into such a con- dition was hard to say, in view of the abundance of food just around the corner in wholesalers’ row on the street with the diminutive prefixed to its proper designation. Women turned away with a shud- der, after one glance at the tendons showing through its mangy coat. It Was not a pretty sight. One wondered why, if not even a sparrow falls without being seen, this tiny thing jwas dying here. i “It's about gone,” said an elderly man, speaking from his truck wagon, nodding at the awful-looking crea- | ture. What could one do with it? The thought came to get it some milk, and place it in an old box somewhere, to give ft' one more chance at lifc before the spatk went out into the unknown. How foolish, came second thought. Here is a starving kitten, which you | would not have known existed had | You come along a minute earlier, or a | minute later. Think of the millions of starving children the world over, and go thy way, worrying not over a beast. * k¥ % “I think it is terrible to treat thene peor chickens 80,” protested a large woman, after shuddering at the kit- ten, which fell over on its side at has grown with, Httle. | Mount | Pleasant, will not help conditions ma- | "nt demands of | every other step. - “It is horrible, the way they pile these crates on top of each other, and scare these poor things so,” contin- ued the tender lady, who no doubt wears a coat in winter made of 100 coats of squirrels. “I do not see why they allow such cruelty. And look at that poor calf over there, bellowing its poor little | heart out! I think there ought to be a law against such things.” So maying, the woman went on to market, where, no doubt, she pur- | chased ‘a_couple of nice chickens to |fry for Sunday dinner. There is a | difference, you know, when the chick- | | en is nicely picked, and hung up, and {when it is alive and a brutal man | grabs it by the heels, pulling it squawking and protesting from the coop. | i e This nice horror at mistreating | chickens on 10th street and on Little B street is all bunk. { Every now and then somebody pops up with a protest at this alleged | cruelty, but it seems like straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel. |~ As long as human beings eat chick- {ens and calves, how dare one protest| at a little preliminary mistreatment, { when in the end the creatures are to ‘ncounter the great mistreatment loss of their lives to satisfy the ap petites of other creatures Whether one likes to admit it or 70t, the ultimate end of chicken cows, pigs, ducks and other creature: onsumed as human food is cruelt. to_animals and nothing else. | If one can stand to cat them, when | | the butchering is done out of sight.| h | he can stand to see a little prelimi- | neighborhood. The common law took | tist put to death. ! ry cruelty in his own sight. Not | that unnecessary harshness can be| ~ondoned for a second. It ousht not! |to be: but when it Is, do not be | tender, unless your censcience is very | clear. | * ok | Walking toward the National Mu- seum, one comes quickly into the | chicken belt. The characteristic odor | lis over all. On the sidewalk, just jabove C street, one encounters a| | stand of fresh fish. iced, tempting to | those who care for sea food. I am not sure that it is not cruelty to eat fish, when You get right down to the ethics of the thing. Cruelty to| fish, however, is something cne sel- dom sees mentioned. One can yank! them arouiid on hooks without the| the slightest qualm. ! ext to the fith stand is a store ! whose front is piled high with auto- | mobile tires. Next is a barber shop almost hidden by gigantic plants commonly called elephant’s ear. These specimens are growing in tubs and doing very nicely. Tall sun- {flowers, standing in absurdly small. narrow boxes of dirt, turn their broad | blossoms to catch the sun. * k % % { The lowing of a calf dominates the street. H Above the. cry of human beings.| cackle of hundreds of hens, roar of| passing automobiles, the whole hurry and bustle of the gateway to the market areas, one small calf is heard. Leaning an ear to winward defi- nitely places the creature as behind the screen in yonder wagon. This is quits a journey you are embarking upon, young fellow, and you will do well to get out of it alive. There is a sort of pump at the cor- ner of Tenth and Little B street. I say “sort of pump,” because it has no handle, in the strict sense of the word. You press the top down, and the water flows out, much as out of | an old-fashioned pump. Maybe this is the last of the pumps. Perhaps there is an old creek below here. So this, then, Little B street, wholesalers' row, with its crates of chickens piled on end, its proprietors standing, white aproned, in front of their stores—or is it the rear’—their purple-striped silk shirts contrasting pleasingly with their aprons. This is a wide street, for all it is a short one—hence its name “Little,” in contrast to big, or regular B street, I suppose. The history of its name does not interest me in the slightest. ‘What interests me is the life of this place, its tradesmanship, its chickens, its fruits, smells, its colors. * * % * One smells Little B street perhaps more than he sees it. These white, gray and red hens, packed in their narrow crates, piled so close together, give a characteristic odor. Negroos like longshoremen reach in, grab out a brace of hens by their feet, drag them protesting forth. There sits a stocky girl, her eyes closed, her head leanizg agzinst a bunch of well ripevad bananas. This is the banana belt. Here the Sanans smell offsets, for the nonce, the chicken odor. But chicken feathers and dust are in the air here, too. These people who work here must be used to it. The air is not distinctly fresh, but it does not seem to affect these folk. No one could look healthier than they all do. Grapes and peaches, spread out for display, in boxes bearing bright labels, are set next fhe sidewalk. Out in the center of the wide street runs a bit of parking, with small trees trying to get a living out of asphalt. One marvels with Clifford Lanham, superintendent of our trees, that they live at all * ok X K The thought of the poor Kkitten keeps Coming back. News of 10,000 children dying in far-off country affects us not at all, but we cannot pass a starving cat without being stricken with pity. I like to think that the Creator made | to sheep, owing ivives {that United States postage | were first issued ynder act of Con- ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. How did the amount of our com- merce carried on American ships com- parc before the World War with the amount before the Civil War?’—E. P. A. Before the World War only § per cent of our goods was carried in vessels under the American flag, while at least 60 per cent of our comme was carried in our own merchant ships prior to the Civil War. Q. How does the Sahara Desert com- pare with the United States in size?— A E. F. A. The Sahara has an area of three and a half million square milcs, while continental United States has but 3,026,789, With Alaska and our island possessions, our territory is slightly larger than the Sahara Desert. Q. Was there a Jewish woman corre- | sponding o Joan of Arc?—A. S. D. A. Deborah, the wife of Lapodeth. was one of the earliest judges of Israel and urged the Jsraelites to rise against the Canaanites, who had oppressed them for generations. Barak, leader of the Israelites, re- fused to go into battle unless ac- companied by Deborah. With a mall force she triumphed over the ‘anaanites. “The Song of Deborah” is considered & masterpicce of lle- brew literature. Q. Was it necessary for the Gov- ernment to advertise for Llack wal- nut in order to obtain the needed gun stocks and airplane materials during war’—L G. A. While the Government did ad- vertise for this wood, this wax found UNNECESSary. Walnut s not so his front porch during churca-time, and what was done about 1t?—J. F. A. The place was Tangior Jsland, 1d. There is an old ordinance aw books of Tangier requir- ing people to attend church, and for- bidding thos¢ who cannot from sitting on their front porch during services. Young Parks was &itting on his porch, and when the constable spied hin and when he refused to go to oburch or with the officer of the law, a fight followed. The constable shot the boy and claimed self-defense. He was glven one year in prison. Q. Was there more than one king named Midas?—C. F. H. A. Midas was a common name of the more ancient Phrygian kings. the Midas of the “golden touch” legend being the most famous. Q. How is Swedizh iron tempered? —A.H. R A, The Bureau of Standards says3 that fron cannot be tempered; th applies to Swedish as well as othe kinds. After being alloyed with « bon, o as to form eteel. it may hardened by quenching from a ter perature which st be above t critical range. Q. Mow ean lor Srowing on a cow?—K. D. A. The Department of Agriculturs says that to prevent the development of horns the hair should be removed from the horn buttons, a stick « caustic potash or soda, wrapped paper to protect the hands of operator, then moistened wi water and rubbed on each horn Lut hel plentiful as such woods as oak or ven hickory and ash, but it is| plentiful enough to supply the world | With an average annual cut of | 50,000,000 feet of lumber. This pro- duction was maintained for man ears prior to the war, most of the wood going abroad. Since the war very little has been sent out of the country, American 1stries now consuming walnut the rate of | 50,000,000 feet a ye { Q. liow many men went en the, Lewis and Clark expedition®—". §. A This_cxpedition, sent out by | President Jefferson to explore the| Louisiana Purchase, had originally 29 members. At St. Louls 16 men jolned for part of the trip. Of these | 14 were sent back with collec ns and reports. but two recruits were added, making 1 party of 33 on t far western march. Q. Where is alsi H M A A. Alsike is best grown in the| States which border on Canada,| although parts of Kentucky, Ten-| nessee and Missouri are adapted to| this clover. It furnishes a large| amount of pasture and the quality | of the hay is excellent. While it akes a very suitable hay for horses and cattle, it ix peculiarly adapted | to its fineness. | 5 i at = | | e seed ratsed?— Q. What is a “common scold”’— . D. | R. | A. A common scold is defined as| one who, by the practice of habitual scolding disturbs the peace of the! : offense and resorted | it. | cognizance of t to various unpleasant devices as pun- ishment for those convicted of Among the punishments were the | stocks, the ducking stool and the brank (a form of bridle). The prac- tice of punishinz common scolds sur- sporadically in the Unit ates, in some of which it is recog- nized in the penal statutes, but the punishment has been changed to fine and imprisonment. Q. Please tell me whether thers are real mermaids®—E. F. A. Mermaids are imaginary inhabit- | ants of the sea The stories concern- ing mermaids, sirens and tritons prob- ably had their origin in the play of | the imagination concerning such sea | creatures as seals and walruses in- distinctly seen. Q. How many kinds of birds are there in the United States?—I. I A. Thera are 800 distinct kinds of birds in this count Q. How was postage paid on le ters before postage stamps were used?—O0. C. D. A. The Post Office Department stamps gress March 3, 18 Prior to the: issues the money for a letter was col- lected from the addressee, so the per- son who received the mail was the one that always paid for it. Q. What was the place where a boy xi ton two or-three times, allowing t caustic to dry after cach a icatin Care should be taken to apply the caustic, which should wot be t moist, to the buttons only, for if it touches the surrounding skin it wiil ause un pain. 1 tels fter the application the calf be protected rain, order prevent the caustic from spreading. " in to) Q. How ny Irishmen ars thero n New York City?—R. G. D A. The Census Bureau says th there are 2 3 people in New Yo City who we Ireland. Q. How are Civil Servic filled in Hawaii?— % A. Civil Service positions in the Hawaziian Islands are filled by special examinations. which are held by the Board of Civil Customs House, positions ; How much is a metric ton’— 2, A. A metric which equals Q. W herdic A. This style of cab was named for its inventor, Peter Herdic. Who was responsible for the be- heading of John the Baptist>—M. (. A. Salome, of dancing fame, Trei- quested his head. At the birthday banquet of her stepfather, Herod Antipas, she induced him to make a vow anything &he wanted. She asked for the head of John the Bap on a platter. Herod kept his vow, and had John the Bap- v ton is 1,000 kilograms, 04.6 pounds certain cabs called Q. Where is the longest hole on a golf course in th > The United tion gays that as the Alamo Country Club of tonio, T has the longest. the fifth hole, and is 657 yards lon Q. In what parts of the country is the hard hack tree found?—A. W. I, A. The hard hack tree is found from Maine to Minnesota and south to Florida. This tree is also known as the hornbeam tree. » Q. I wish to uso other sweetening agents instead of sugar and want to know what proportions to substitute. —LC of a cup of sugar, you may us 1!z cups corn rup. cups honey, 11-3 cups molasses 1% cups maple sirup. 1% e Frederic of Bohemia, who married a daughter of James T of | England. was called the “Winter since his reign lasted throuza | one Winter only. (The Star maintains for the plrasv:~ and profit of its readers an informai; service under the directorship of Fred- eric J. Haskin. The scope of the bu- reau is national and international. and no subject is too elementary or te broad fo enlist the personal attentio of a specialist. Addresss The Star I formation Bureaw, Frederic J. Hask was shot because he was sittng on Newton D. Baker of Ohio, chief Democratic protagonist of the League of Nations, told this observer in Washington this week that he ex- pects Republican pro-leaguers of eminence to come out for John W. Davis before election day “They have nowhere else logically to go,” said the former Secretary of War. “They cannot vote for President Coolidge, because the Republican party has been jockeyed into a posi- tion of hostility to the league. They cannot support Mr. La Follette, be- cause the Progressive ticket, besides being anti-league, advocates the re- vision of the treaty of Versailles, to which the United States is not a/f party. If there is still consistency in their political souls, Republican pra leaguers must vote the Democratic | ticket on November 4. Mr. Baker| thinks Mr. Davis in_ his campaign | speeches has advanced leagues, as it | were, beyond the Democratic plat- | form on the international issue. The | Cleveland Demosthenes expects to ' take the stump actively for Davis| and Bryan in October. Also he con- siders it “inconceivable” that *so| rare a thoroughbred” as the Demo- | cratic presidential nominee should | not grow extensively in public esteem | during the next six weeks. ) * % % X From Republican quarters comes a yarn described as explanatory of Sen- ator La Follette’s strangle-hold on the German vote. “Fighting Bob” said to have made a speech in a Wis- consin town in one of the years be- | fore the United States entered the war. “Germany has been very pa- tient with us,” he is reported to have told his audience. That has cinched the Teuton vote for:La Follctte ever since, according to the chronicler of the eplsode. * Kk % % It oughtn’t to be vert Secretary Wilbur to the Pres- ldent's notion that the naval future belongs to aircraft rather than bat- tleships. Mr. Wilbur's aide and per- sonal naval adviser is Capt. Walter R. Gherardi, who, until & few months ago, was commander of the air scout- us this way so that we would be ing squadron of the Atlantic fleet. 1 isf ficult to con- | director, 21st and C strects northwest WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLI: M WILE G. 0. P. in 1912 and 1916. Mr. Taft's Winona speech and Mr. Hughes' ora- torical swing around the Western eir- cle both resulted disastrously to Re. publican fortunes. There are poli- ticians . who still think the whele course of-those two campaigns might have been reversed if the candidates had restrained themselves. In 1920 Mr. Harding made a co into the Middle West, but the project to ‘idrag him off the front porch” andy keep him off—a threat of the Demo- crats and a policy approved by some Republicans—was never carricd out. The high command had Taft and Hughes in mind. It evidently has them in mind now, in Coolidge's in- terest. x * % % Frederick Moore, the American counselor of the Japanese embassy in Washington, has just been decorated by the Mikado with the Order of tho Sacred Treasure. The distinction was bestowed in recognition of Mr Moore". services to the-cause of American-Japanese friendship durins the Washington conference. Mr. Moore recently returned from Tokio, where for two vears ho was foreign counselor to the Japanese embassy. Once he was a newspaper correspond- ent at Peking, and scored a historic scoop by getting the first news of Japan's twenty-one demands - on| China. * % ¥ % John T. Adams, former Republica | national chairman, went back to his sash, door and blind business in Iow: after the Cleveland convention, but | like the sailor who counldn't kecy off his old ship, Adams is about t | take a hand in the G. O. P. game. . | expects shortly to turn up at Re publican national headquarters if | Chicago and place his knowledge an | experience at Chairman Butler's com mand during the closing weeks ¢ { the campaizn. | A * ok X % | Harlan F. Stone, Prestdent too) idge's Attorney General, is pushin; | Herbert Hoover for first honors a | the administration’s glutton for worl ‘er. Stone, ever since his incumbenc: of the Department of Justice, ha: forced to attend to what comes under | Capt. Gherardl is himself a gallant| made it a habit to come early and g our own nose. If every one did that, it would be a better world. We hasten back to find the kitten, determined to buy It a bottle of milk, and give the poor cuss one more chance. 3 The kitten is not there. Alas, how often do we fail to do the little deeds we might have done. We read a book, and determine to thank the author, but we forget about it. We think of good words to say and deeds to do, but we seldom say them or 'm'm} . :mn mine infirmity.” aviator. He has piloted Secretary Wilbur back and forth between Hampton Roads’ and Washington in a scouting plane on one or two occa- sions. Admiral Sims s an apostle of the theory that the United States Navy would face a modern foe fatally handicapped unless well Supplied with offensive and defensive aircraft. - x X X X The White House dictym that there are no cases on record of any presi- dential candidate being defeated be- cause he_ didn't make speeches is based on :0 fates that s late. Nights at his desk are one o his hobbies. Now and then you' hear that Stone is slated for th first United States Supreme Cour bench vacaney that Mr. Coolidge ha to fill. He is a profound believer i the Federal judiciary as “our guai antee of liberty.' s * ¥ ¥ X To be filed for future reference- their mutual friends say that if a when John W. Davis becomes Pre: ident, his law partner, Frank L. Poll is to be Secretary of State. (Copyright, 1924.) | [